André Chatelain, 1951

Born in Dorion -Quebec in 1951. André Chatelain has worked with Madeleine Leonard Tremblay and Charles T.Garo.Creative classes with Louise Jalbert and drawing with Claudine Ascher along with training from The Academy of Realist Art, a private institution that teaches drawing and painting in the old-master tradition, have directed the artist to dedicate himself to oil technique on canvas applied in the old-master method of realist art. The artist has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions and is fully devoted to oil painting and drawing. His work is part of private collections throughout Canada, the United States and France.

Jeff Barson, 1966

Barson was born in Logan, Utah. At the age of nine, his family moved to England where Barson attended Beechwood Park Preparatory School. Over the next years, Barson traveled extensively throughout Europe and was exposed to its great museums and fine artistic legacy. He credits his early interests in Art and Literature to this move which provided an excellent education and inspiration for the creative young Barson. Barsons paintings have hung in galleries in New York, Boston and Los Angeles. His limited edition prints are distributed nationally and have met with great enthusiasm from the press and public. U.S. Art Magazine named him one of six artists that will change the limited edition print market.

Ermanno Vites, 1936

Ermanno Vites, pittore Italiano, scultore e ceramista, è nato a Gorizia. E' stato diplomato Maestro d’Arte presso l’Istituto F. Mengaroni di Pesaro.
I soggetti: Figure, nature morte, fiori e composizioni.
Le tecniche: Olio, acrilico, tempera, tecnica mista, ceramica e scultura.
Una sua opera si trova al Museo della Ceramica di Faenza e al Museo della Ceramica della Repubblica di San Marino;
Un grande basso-rilievo in ceramica si trova alla Banca Malatestiana di S.Giustina-S.Vito, Rimini;
Una scultura in ceramica “Cristo Risorto“ e le stazioni della Via Crucis si trovano presso la chiesa della Riconciliazione di Rimini.

Ancient Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.

Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th-16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th-6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Babylon was also used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire.

Babylon was one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East, until its decline during the Hellenistic period. Nearby ancient sites are Kish, Borsippa, Dilbat, and Kutha.